Children and Their Books
Published on 1. October 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-19-812253-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Children and Their Books" is a collection of essays brought together to celebrate the research of Iona and Peter Opie in this field. Twenty contributors explore a wide range of topics, from the behaviour of children in early modern England to the development of French fairy tales and nursery rhymes; from the work of classic authors such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and J.R.R.Tolkien to some of the diaries and magazines written by children themselves. The book offers a blend of the entertaining and the scholarly and is extensively illustrated. The contributors are Brian Alderson, Gillian Avery, Giles Barber, John Batchelor, John Bayley, Olivia and Alan Bell, Julia Briggs, Hugh Brogan, Humphrey Carpenter, A.O.J.Cockshut, Barbara Everett, Kate Flint, Clive Hurst, Alison Lurie, Neil Philip, W.W.Robson, William St Clair, Nigel Smith, Keith Thomas, and Jack Zipes. Proceeds from this book will be used to preserve the Opie collection of children's books in the Bodleian Library.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
40 half-tones
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812253-1 (9780198122531)
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Content
Brian Alderson (Richmond, North Yorkshire): Collecting children's books: self-indulgence and scholarship; Clive Hurst (Oxford): Selections from the Accession Diaries of Peter Opie; Keith Thomas (Oxford): Children in early modern England; Nigel Smith: A Child Prophet: Martha Hatfield as The Wise Virgin ; Gillian Avery: The Puritans and their heirs; Jack Zipes (Gainsville, Florida): The origins of the fairy tale for children; Giles Barber (Oxford): Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre'; William St Clair (London SW1): William Godwin as children's bookseller; John Batchelor (Oxford): Dodgson, Carroll, and the emancipation of Alice; Kate Flint: Arthur Hughes as illustrator for Children; Julia Briggs: Women writers and writing for children: Sarah Fielding to E. Nesbit; Wallace Robson (Edinburgh): A. Nesbit and The Book of Dragons ; Humphrey Carpenter: Excessively impertinent bunnies: the subversive element in Beatrix Potter; Neil Philip: The Wind in the Willows : the vitality of a classic; Barbara Everitt: Henry James's children; John Bayley (Oxford): The child in Walter de la Mare; Hugh Brogan: Tolkien's Great War; Alison Lurie (Cornell University): William Mayne; A. O. J. Cockshut (Oxford): Children's diaries; Olivia & Alan Bell: Children's manuscript magazines in the Bodleian Library.